I am ill with some stupid virus that is going round; every time I lie down or try to talk, I cough uncontrollably and sound like a sea lion, and I'm always too hot or too cold so spend the time taking jumpers on and off. I am fighting the bug with lots of onion and garlic in soups and stews, and distracting myself with the US elections, of which more later.

Of course, the police "bending" a "handy" piece of law to a use it was not intended is hardly uncommon, and can turn up in the most bizarre of places: Mixmag recently reported how one force used "crack house" legislation to jail a DJ and a nightclub owner, even though the judge acknowledged that neither were involved in the illicit drug trade in their venue, and that they had in fact done much to try to prevent it.